Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:06:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux |
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On Jan 30 2008 00:57, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Hello! >> >> It have come to my attention that a patch has been committed to the >> kernel with the explicit purpose of tainting ndiswrapper - the kernel >> module allowing Windows NDIS drivers for Ethernet and Wireless cards to >> be used by the kernel. >>... >> Just to reiterate some points from the old discussion: >>... >> - no copyright violation is involved, as Windows drivers are not derived >> from Linux sources >>... > >It is interesting that someone posting with an @gnu.org address claims >that dynamic linking of not GPLv2 compatible code into GPLv2 code was >not a copyright violation. > How about you see this as syscall linkage or pipe linkage^2 instead? Linux and GNU, respectively, allow these.
^2 gplprogram <input.txt | proprietaryprogram >output.txt
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